Evaluating Ansible

categories:
- Automation
- Linux

I'm currently actively working on Salt, I actually have a dozen production servers at work, running critical services through it. I commit new things into the production branch every couple of days.
Since Ansible seems to get all the rage (at least convinced a couple of fellow FOSS friends, Fabian, Serge, etc), I decided to give it a try and compare the two solutions.

I'm detailing here how you can start working with Ansible in about 3 minutes. I'm limiting this post to remote execution and won't cover playbooks. That's really for my own future reference.

By default, it uses Paramiko as transport, but in this example, I'm using regular SSH. I'm also working with two "minions" (Salt terms).